Episode 8 - Comedy/Life/Work Balance

Dave talks about needing a good life balance. 

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Carmody Podcast, where comedy meets your slash my commute. I'm your host, Dave Thompson, and this is episode number eight. Long awaited episode number eight. And guys, I have someone with me today. Somebody that absolutely shook my world. Somebody that almost flipped my comedy career upside down. A legend to the Inland Empire comedy scene. Johnny Gold, everybody. Just kidding, he's actually not here. I said last episode he was gonna be here on this episode, but we still need to schedule a day. I haven't been able to do it yet because I've been so busy. So this episode, let me talk about busyness and let me talk about comedy. Okay, and yes, there will be a Johnny Gold episode. We love Johnny Gold. Shout out Johnny, he's probably walking his dog right now. We love that. We love you. Shout out Johnny, shout out Ed, shout out Dan, shout out all the homies that listen to the pod. Alec, everybody, thank you so much for everybody that listens to the pod. Thank you guys. If you guys have never listened before, my name is Dave Thompson. I am the host of this podcast, and I record it while I'm in the car. That's why it's called Carmody. We're talking about comedy while I'm in the car, so let's talk about it. Let's get right into it. I do so much comedy, and my wife is gonna kill me if I don't chill out. Okay, that's just what it is. She's gonna kill me. I'm gonna end up in a ditch. I know you guys see me, and you're just like, man, this guy hates his wife and kids. I really don't hate my wife and kids. You know what I hate? I hate sucking. I hate sucking at something. You know what I'm saying? I know towards the beginning of this pod, like I think maybe episode one, even, I was talking about that work life comedy balance, and I do not have it. I do not have it at all, and I need to figure it out because I have the love of my life in my life, and I have three amazing children, and I don't want to miss everything that's going on at home, but I also want to be involved with comedy, you know what I'm saying? I want to be involved, I want to make the funnies, I want to be able to express myself in this art form. I consider myself an artist, yes, I do, yes, I do, and so I need to find a good balance because when God Almighty, the one true God, gives you a beautiful wife and wonderful, amazing children, you don't want to neglect them, but when God gives you the ability, if that's what this is, who knows? If God gives you the talent, okay, I need to stop. It it I feel inspired when I'm on stage. I feel inspired to write, I feel inspired to perform, I feel inspired to perfect the craft, I feel inspired to get better, to do better, to be better around people. I had somebody very close to me today uh tell me that since they saw me at the beginning, compared to who I am now, that I am a much better person than I was. And that was even maybe just a year ago that this person met me, maybe a little over a year. And that meant a lot to me. Because I do feel like I've changed. I feel like comedy does change you. You know, you you start thinking about the bits and stuff like that, and you start seeing life in a little bit of a different light because you see how you can use things on stage. There is that aspect of it, but even as a person, I've become more confident in who I am, I've become more confident in my perspective and in my point of view, and I've become more confident on stage and telling jokes, and and that's from bombing and bombing. I gotta tell you guys, I had a stinky on Sunday night. I had a freaking poochie stinky on Sunday night. So I pulled up to the Hideaway Cafe, Travis Smith, shout out T Smith, T Rizzle, shout out the boy, the No Question comedy show. Check out his shows. You had Davey the Don barking outside. We'll get to him in a couple minutes. We got Travis Smith, we got an incredible stacked lineup. I walked in the Hideaway Cafe, Carlos Patino on stage, absolutely killing it. Shout out Carlos Patino, so excited that this Thursday he's gonna be on the I.e. comedy showcase. He's gonna kill it. I'm sure he's gonna freaking kill it. It's gonna be a great time. But guys, check out this guy's show, this guy Travis, check out his show. Make sure you follow him at Swagafoo. Make sure you follow the No Question comedy show. Absolutely masterclass performance by this guy. Over 30 people in the audience, real people in the audience. Uh, the the venue looks great. They seem to really like what he's got going on. I'm so proud of him, Travis. I don't know if you're listening or not, buddy. But if you are listening, dude, I'm so proud of you, man. Uh, I remember when we were just like getting started. You started just barely before me, and and to see the incredible shows you're producing, man, that inspires me, man. I I want people to see shows like that that I produce, and and so that really inspires me. All your hard work and dedication and everything. I'm gonna keep reposting those flyers. I'm gonna keep showing up to support uh spot or not, dude. You got you got something great, you got something wonderful, and I hope it's very successful. Alright, that got a little that got a little weird. I know that got a little gay. I'm just saying, dude, you gotta support the boys. Now let's get to Davy the Don, man. I just had a conversation with this guy. This guy's taking some time away. He's gonna go to Austin, he's gonna get all famous. This guy's gonna be on kill Tony, you know. I'm saying he's gonna come out there, he's gonna be like, Tony, you're gay. Tony, we think you're gay. No, I'm just kidding. Uh no, dude. He's he's a great guy, funny guy. Make sure you follow that guy. He just had headlined the ice house. Also, very proud of this guy. He just headlined the ice house, completely sold out the room. The California room, if you guys don't know, it's not 10 seats. It's definitely more than 10 seats, it's definitely more than 20 seats, it's more than 30, more than 40, more than 50, more than 60 seats, and he sold it out. Put up a bunch of people from the IE. Shout out, David the Don. We can't wait to get you back. Get back over here, boy. Go to LA. You don't need to go to Austin, man. We think you're funny out here. Go to LA. There's more industry out there than there is in Austin. Austin sucks. Right? We can't be losing good comics to Austin. You know what I'm saying? Um, freaking shout out, Davey, though. Shout out. And shout out all the people that are producing shows, man. We got a lot of people here in the IE producing shows. Shout out to them. And I hope everybody, including myself, gets to find a good work-life balance, man. Because I do I do feel a little bit burnt out. If I'm being honest with you, let's get a little vulnerable. I feel a little burnt out. You know, I got this, I got this tour coming up. I was working real hard to get a bunch of dates for me and the homies to go out, and it's a lot to keep track of, and I'm following up with venues, and I'm doing a lot of stuff, and this and that, and bada bah bah, bada bing, bada boom. It is what it is, you know what I'm saying? Um, a lot of stuff going on, you know what I'm saying? That that personal life kind of takes a toll on the things you're trying to do, and then when you're in the personal life, the things you're trying to do, excuse me, things you're trying to do in comedy kind of bleed over, and that kind of stresses out, and so I'm kind of taking a step back here, and I'm gonna evaluate how how I can do the things I want to do and accomplish the things I want to accomplish while also being a great husband and and a present great father. You know what I'm saying? I want to find those things, I need to find those balances, and and I gotta say, let me just tell you something. I gotta say, there's nothing in this life more humbling, respectfully, nothing in this life more humbling than just eating a fat one on stage. You guys. When you just eat a I mean I'm talking a hot spicy fat one. I mean a hot smoking stinking spicy grande un fat one. Okay, there's nothing quite like it. It's a humbling experience. And I gotta say, that one on Sunday, you guys. This is my transition getting back to what I said earlier, and I didn't tie up that loose end. Man, Sunday. I I ate a fat one, dude. I messaged Travis immediately afterward. I was like, Travis, I'm so sorry, dude. He was flashing the light of me. He's like, get the frick off the stage, you're eating it. I'm like, Fick! Because you guys, you know what? I identified the issue already. I listened back to it. I didn't have them on my side. Guys, I made the crowd. Excuse me, I made the crowd dislike me. I really did. I made the crowd dislike me. Then they got distracted, and the comic before me, man, he had them reeled in. You know, he had them reeled in. Tristan Sims, shout out the shout out that guy. Very funny comic, very funny. Uh, he had them locked in and then I unlocked him, dude. I screwed up the show. I did, man. I was screwing up the show. I said something stupid at the beginning. I had a stupid opener and a stupid line that I was testing out. I should have just gone with the A. You know, when I pulled up to the spot, I didn't even have a spot. Travis gracious enough to give me the spot. You know what I'm saying? And then I went up there and I ate a stinky, you know what I'm saying? And afterward he messaged me, he's like, Oh no, dude, you didn't do bad. No, it was all good. I'm like, Travis, I I smell it on the way home, dude. I ate a freaking stinky, a stinky pinky winky, okay? I'm sorry, dude. Please don't hate me. It's humbling, it's a humbling experience. And tie that with like your wife being like, hey, come home and watch a TV show with me, and then I'm out here freaking eating a stinky. You know what I'm saying? It's a bad combination, man. Let's talk about TV shows for a second, y'all. Let's talk about it. What's up with all these freaking murder shows? You know what I'm saying? My wife is like, hey, I wanna relax. You wanna sit down and watch somebody get murdered? I'm like, oh yeah, that's gonna make you relax? That doesn't prey on your anxieties. That doesn't cause pause. So that you could go check your locks on your windows and your doors. And she also watches these freaking shows too, where this guy's a polygamist and he's banging three different, four different, five different chicks. She's like, look at this freaking sicko here. Look at this freaking sicko. And I'm like, yeah, that guy's a that guy's a sicko, dude. Having sex with multiple women, that's disgusting. That is vile. All those germs going in one person and into the next person and out of the next person and into the next That's gross. Sick freak having sex with multiple women and then marrying younger ones as the older ones get older, you freaking sick puppy. Let's talk about the phrase sick puppy. You know what I'm saying? Is that supposed to instill more sadness? Because if you say a sick dog, you're like, man, that sucks. Your dog is sick, maybe vomiting or pooping its brains out. But if you say sick puppy, if you think of like whimpering and little and and the floppy, sad ears. Sick puppy, you're one sick puppy. You know? Let my wife be watching these shows, you know. And there's a lot of history behind it, you know. Like the there was some, there used to be, not anymore. There used to be some 19 kids and counting. 18 kids and counting to 19 kids and counted to 20 kids and counting or whatever, full house counting, whatever it was. Watch. But then the cons then then all the allegations. I was about to say conspiracy. Is this not a conspiracy? Freaking Josh Duggar, you sicko, you sick puppy. You guys, we used to see the show, right? And then we find out that the Duggar freaking kids are freaking nasty. Inappropriately being gross and nasty. That's disgusting. You know what I'm saying? And I gotta tell you, what makes it even more disgusting if I can quantify making something of that nature worse than it already is, respectfully? When they're like, yo, I'm about to go to church. That makes it dirtier. They're like, yo, we be in church. We believe in God, we believe in Jesus Christ the most high. You know what I'm saying? That's how they talk out there in the south, right? That's how they talk, you know what I'm saying? They be like, yo, let me go pray and let's do Bible study. And then they're like, yo, sis, you got anybody you're bunking up with tonight? Freaking sickos, dude. Sickos. There's a whole chapter in the Bible dedicated to sickos. Did y'all know that? It's Leviticus 18. It's an entire book dedicated to sickos. It says, hey, don't have sex with your dad, don't have sex with your mom, don't have sex with your sister or your brother. And then you just think to yourself, man, if God wants us to know what this book says, then that means that there's a there's just passages in here that are for people that have sex with their family, and that's disgusting. That's disgusting. And you gotta think about this. This is even back in the time, allegedly, uh God. This is back in the time where like there wasn't as many people, where the earth wasn't as populated, where you knew literally everybody 15 miles from you. You know what I'm saying? You knew everybody in town, and they're like, hey, stop messing around with your freaking family. I'm sorry, God, that's not what you said. You said, stop messing around with your family. Stop it. Stop touching PPs and VVs and BBs and babies. Stop. Keep your hands to your freaking self until you go out of the village and you meet yourself a nice boy or a nice girl. You know what I'm saying? Until you meet yourself a nice little hunk or a little dame. You know what I'm saying? They say, hey, cut it out. You know? The author of that portion of the Bible, you know, was like, man, we gotta get we gotta get these people some freaking help. These guys, if this ends here, this ends now. I'm writing it down on paper. Stop having threesomes with your mom and her sister, you sicko, because that's your aunt. That's your aunt, you sicko, and that's your mommy. You freak. Stop having threesomes with your family. Not good. I'm surprised that somebody didn't say, oh, what about foursomes? It means all of them. Stop having intercourse with your inner family. You know what I'm saying? I'm not saying you should have intercourse with your outer family, I'm just saying your immediate family is definitely a no. The like second cousin, third cousin stuff, hand hand down, or what's not it's not called hand down, it's called a freaking what is it called? Whatever I was gonna say. So I forgot a word, it's gonna bother me now. But like, yeah, just keep keep your freaking hands to yourself and and you and you'll be good. You know what I'm saying? Keep your hands to yourself though, don't be a sicko. You dare be a weirdo, don't you dare. Absolutely not. Everybody gotta calm down. People be saying, oh well, you know, if love is love, if love is love, why not? If they're consenting adults, I'm like, cause it's sick. That's why. You're never gonna catch me at any point in my life being like, yo, it's cool to like freaking bang your sister. You know what I'm saying? You're never gonna catch me saying that. You're never gonna catch it. It's not possible. Okay? That's gross. Family is off limits, it should always be off limits. Maybe that's something most of us agree with. Maybe we all just agree on the Bible that we're not supposed to do that. Maybe you don't agree, even agree with everything that's inside of it, but you definitely agree with hey, mother, father, aunt, uncle, siblings, that's out of that's out of the question. You know what I'm saying? That's out of the question. First cousins, I don't really think that's up for debate. I think you should keep your hands to your freaking self. Second cousins might be a little bit more debatable. If it's third cousins or twice removed on your dad's side or whatever, that's free game. That's free game. You know, if you're at the parties and that person pulls up, that's called convenience. That's called convenience. If you're four families apart, but you guys share one person. If you're four families apart, I don't know. I think that might be good. Like, like you might be straight. You that might be a pass. You know what I'm saying? That might be a pass. Gotta freaking check it out. Oh, let's go. 20 almost 21 minutes passed already. I love that. I love this, dude. Freaking love recording episodes, episode number eight. You guys of Carmody. Carmedy, man. We're doing comedy in the car, dude. We're talking about it. We're just letting loose, dude. I don't even know what I'm saying. I probably said some crazy stuff on here already. You guys ever drink cough syrup? Yeah, me neither. I I literally have not drank cop syrup. I've just said that. I don't know why I said that. I said it because I thought it was gonna be funny, because I'm on like theater mode, you know what I'm saying? Not that I've ever done a theater, so I shouldn't say that, but like that mode where you're just like you're just ready to snap at any second, and you're just like, you got that TV remote in your hand, you know what I'm saying? You're like, I'm trying to put on whatever show I want to watch. That's why I took the remote from you children. I don't want to watch Blippy no more. We about to put on something crazy. Get on the Mandalorian, get it on, get on the Mandalorian. Try to see Baby Grogu fight a synth lord. You know what I'm saying? We love baby Grogu. We love Baby Grogu, we love the Mandalorian. Alright. So here we go. Here's the deal. Here's what we got going on right now El Pollo Loco. You guys like El Pollo Loco? Sometimes I get their chicken. I'm like, man, this place is kind of fire. But then you order a meal, right? And they're like, Do you want Mexican? Rice or macaroni and cheese? And I'm like, those are not usually served together. Mexican rice and mac and cheese, those are not usually served together. You generally don't want. I'm gonna be honest with you guys, I need to eat mac and cheese in a bowl because I don't want my mac and cheese to be touching other stuff. I know it touches other stuff once it goes into my tummy, once it goes into my digestive tract. I understand that. But here's the thing though, I don't want to see it together going in. I don't want to take a bite of some craft mac and cheese dinner, and then see a crack of the freaking apple. I like I don't want to see it. You know what I'm saying? I don't want to see it. But you know it is what it is. I I I I called some jobs today, and I was like, hey, uh, I applied, and you guys, less than 15 hours later, you guys uh declined my application. I got like a message saying, like, unfortunately you're not moving forward. Um, best of luck to you, and if you ever want to apply again, feel free, feel welcome. And I'm like, isn't it crazy you tell us to like feel free slash feel welcome? And like the dang job of the place where you're going to like you know what I'm saying? Like freaking. I don't know. I don't even know. I don't remember what I was saying to be honest with you. I kind of just had a brain fart. I just had to make a sharp left turn, and now I'm going over a bridge. Now I'm going over a bridge. But yeah, look, that's what I gotta say. Freaking be good to each other, pony boy. You know what it is. I'm off the rails right now. I don't know what's going on. I had I was like locked in, and then I started forgetting stuff. I'm putting this whole episode, I'm uploading this whole thing. I don't know what's gonna happen. I don't know what I'm gonna say. We might have to bleep some of this out. Nope, because I don't bleep stuff out. If I'm not gonna post it, I don't even post the whole episode. You know that. You guys know that, okay? We just talked about this. We just talked about it. You guys know that this isn't a secret, okay? It's not a secret. Alright. Let's get back to what we're talking about here. Let's get back to it. First and foremost, ladies and gentlemen, I would love to get a shout out to our sponsor. You guys, we have a very first sponsor in in the house. The sponsor, you guys, unbelievable. You guys will not believe the type of shows these guys put on. The absolute mastercrass, mastercrass, masterclass. I'm losing it. I'm uploading the whole thing, though. I don't give a frick. The absolute masterclass that man, am I forgetting again? Oh, the sponsor. Frick. I'm telling you guys, I literally just brain farted. I almost forgot what I was saying again. No, the freaking masterclass sponsor, you guys, absolutely funding every single thing that I have needed in comedy. Uh, these people have provided. Ladies and gentlemen, I would love for you to give a warm commented applause for my sponsor, I eat comedy. Hey everybody, it's Dave Thompson with I Eat Comedy. And I support this message. It's stupid. It's a bit that I thought was gonna work and it didn't work. Okay? And now there's a donkey. I'm about to go through this canyon and there's donkeys here. There's ass. That's what it says in the Bible. They're ass. There's ass in the road. There's ass. So much ass in the road. So much of it. Get out of my way, ass. That's what I'm talking about. You guys know I'm locked in. I'm good. You guys are thinking, man, this guy's freaking lost it. Let me tell you what it is. I'll tell you exactly what it is. A little bit of a stressed out mental day, but I got I got plans to get myself reeled back in. I got plans to take a little bit of a load off, take a little bit of that stress off. You know what I'm saying? I got some plans. And I'm very excited for the things that I do have coming up. Got an IE comedy showcase this Thursday in Menifee. It's gonna be an absolute banger of a show. Got some amazing comedians on that locally, and one person out of town that's gonna come in, James Graves. Shout out, James Graves. JG, make sure you follow that guy, JG on IG. You feel me? You know what I'm saying? Let's go. That freaking rhyme. I I would kill it as a battle rapper. You guys have no idea. I would spit a flow that would go freaking crazy, dude. It would go wild, dude. It'd be fire. It'd be fire, cuh. Yeah, it's wild. Alright, well, as we're winding down here, as the the pod is winding down, the the 30-minute threshold is approaching. I'm very excited. Definitely gonna have some guests on coming up here soon. Got some faithful listeners, uh the guest guesting, and uh I'm very excited just to to be able to to share the stage with some amazing comics coming up here, and uh, you know, to really just work on my craft and to just do the best I can and to just be thankful. You know, I'm thankful for each and every one of you. I'm thankful whenever I get to step out on that stage. It is a lot of fun, and I'm very thankful, very, very thankful and appreciative for it. I don't deserve it, but that's not the point. The point is that it's happening, you know, and I gotta enjoy it in the moment, man. These are some of the best times I'm sure I'll ever have. And so, gonna try and enjoy the moment, gonna try and find a good balance, and that's what it is. Do I feel like I just drank some absolute crazy robot testing right now that makes me drowsy? Of course it does. I'm gonna stay on the pod until I get home. I'm almost home, about to be home. Uh, yeah, but no, this has been super fun. Thank you guys so much for listening. Big shout out to all the faithful listeners, all the new listeners. I see you guys, I see what cities you're from. Anaheim, shout out Orange County, shout out Menifee, shout out Temechula, shout out Moreno Valley, shout out Riverside, shout out Redlands, shout out Japan. I see you, I see you. That's always crazy when I look through my my listener list and I see somebody from Japan. That blows my mind. Shout out each and every person that rocks with me, shout out each and every person, those of you who listen to the pod. Uh, whether we've met in person or we've not met in person, you got a special place in my heart, and I gotta say that because I love you very much. You know what I'm saying? Like an eagle, or like a needle needs a vein. Like my uncle Joe in Oklahoma needs the rain. I need you. Like a lighthouse on a coast, like the father and the son need the Holy Ghost. I need you. Guys, thank you so much for supporting. You guys are wonderful. And yeah, thank you so much for listening to the pod tonight. I'm about to stop off a little raising canes. I'm good. I'm good, I swear. I'm gonna stop off a little raising canes, get a little food for me and the wifey. You guys have a wonderful week. Look forward to doing more episodes, and I'll talk to you guys soon. Have a wonderful night. God bless you. Have a wonderful night. Love you. Goodbye.